Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
ChinchillaLady wrote:I always make potato salad with half mayo and half saald cream for sharpness too.
I use a combi of mayo and low fat Greek yog for the same reason.
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herbidacious wrote:I do love salad cream... We never had mayonnaise in the house when I was a child.
Nor did we ... My Mum would make my sister and me, little plate salads with chopped lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, finely sliced spring onions (as they were then called;) ) and diced dairylea cheese ... then salad cream over the top. We loved it and it was my Mum's way of getting us to enjoy salad stuff.
I already had a couple of had boiled eggs in the fridge and am now sitting eating in a sarni, mashed up with salad cream and topped with sliced tomatoes
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
Salad cream is the right thing for “savoury cheese” - grated cheddar, carrot and celery with a touch of onion, seasoning and enough salad cream to bind
Having only mayo the other day I added a slug of American yellow mustard, that worked well
A problem with making posh sandwiches is that the slices of sliced bread have got thicker, thin cut vanished from the market years ago, I remember discussing on the BBC board. So you have to be very nifty with a bread knife, though I think the slices produced by the machines in baker’s shops or M&S are a more useful thickness m and better bread too
Having only mayo the other day I added a slug of American yellow mustard, that worked well
A problem with making posh sandwiches is that the slices of sliced bread have got thicker, thin cut vanished from the market years ago, I remember discussing on the BBC board. So you have to be very nifty with a bread knife, though I think the slices produced by the machines in baker’s shops or M&S are a more useful thickness m and better bread too
Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
aero280 wrote:Coleslaw adds a nice crunch to a cheese sandwich.
A smidgeon of black pepper lifts a bowl of strawberries.
I sometimes put raw Sauerkraut or Krautsalat on cheese sandwiches. It has a nice crunch.
Mayonaise and salad cream always had me puzzled. Mayonaise over here tastes different in any case.
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When I got the (part-time) caterer in for Chris's wake she said she always bought the sandwich platters in from either Wenzel's or Costco because they did them much better than she did!
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As it currently looks like I'm going to be on my own could you all give me your best Coronation Chicken recipes please. I love it but haven't made it for years.
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I have made it differently every time I have made it but Felicity’s version is pretty much what I’d do - poached chicken, half mayo with good yogurt, mango chutney
I wouldn’t bother with the apricots, I’d chop the chutney (Geeta’s is pretty chunky) and I’d replace the cinnamon in the poaching liquid with half a star anise so the stock would be nice in a noodle soup
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... SApp_Other
I wouldn’t bother with the apricots, I’d chop the chutney (Geeta’s is pretty chunky) and I’d replace the cinnamon in the poaching liquid with half a star anise so the stock would be nice in a noodle soup
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... SApp_Other
Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
I agree ... my usual version is based pretty much on Felicity's ... although I use the 'second half' of a chicken that has been 'pot-roasted' in a Crock-pot with some aromatics but little or no added liquid. I wouldn't use home-made mayo either ... I find Sainsbug's lemon mayo perfectly acceptable.
Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
Didn't know there was a "Sandwich week".
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... dium=email
If you want something else apart from cucumber sandwiches here's their
Sandwich recipe collection
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... ch-recipes
I like the look of the anchovy butter and radish open sandwich
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recip ... ovy-butter
Salad cream: no thank you, far too brash. If making egg sandwiches, eggs mayo etc I add a little mustard to the mayonnaise & sometimes some finely diced mini pickled onions and /or a dribble of the liquid.
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... dium=email
If you want something else apart from cucumber sandwiches here's their
Sandwich recipe collection
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... ch-recipes
I like the look of the anchovy butter and radish open sandwich
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recip ... ovy-butter
Salad cream: no thank you, far too brash. If making egg sandwiches, eggs mayo etc I add a little mustard to the mayonnaise & sometimes some finely diced mini pickled onions and /or a dribble of the liquid.
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
Chives are good with egg mayo
Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
I like finely chopped green pepper or celery with egg mayo to break up the creaminess a bit
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